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Sample of authors
Child, Lee
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four brothers. When he was four years old, the family moved to Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, so the brothers were able to attend Orchard Primary School. When Jim was eleven years old he won a scholarship to King Edward’s School, after which he read law at the University of S...
Literary figures
Blotto (Devereux) Lyminster
Gender: Male
The honourable Devereux Lyminster, better known as ‘Blotto’, comes from a respected noble family. He is well-built, strong and handsome, a famous cricketer and has a brain like a hen. When it comes to solving murder cases in a series of farcical crime novels by Simon Brett, which are set in the 1920s, he thus often plays the role of a stupid ‘Watson’ to his beautiful, smart sister Honoria, called...